Endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap

Footage of a funeral, motorcycles, and the creation of a wedding dress opens "Exeunt," the series finale of Endeavour.

Many TV shows are well past their prime by the time they hit their final season. Not Endeavour. The magnificent British series, a prequel to another mystery drama classic, Inspector Morse , bid farewell to American viewers Sunday night, July 2, on PBS with shocking resolutions, heartbreaking goodbyes and even a bit of Shakespeare. We got new insight into the beleaguered and brilliant Endeavour Morse Shaun Evans by watching him evolve from a neophyte detective constable into someone more like the jaded loner played by John Thaw in the original series. That leads to one of the explanations the final season promised to deliver: why Thursday is never mentioned by his former partner in the original series. He comes from the ingenious brain of Russell Lewis, the prolific scribe who wrote every Endeavour episode, so he had yet to be invented when the original series was airing. Thursday stabbed the young man to protect his son, Sam Jack Bannon , returning to the series after leading the cast of Pennyworth for three seasons.

Endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap

So, this is it — the final episode of Endeavour , the last chapter of a year TV saga. Can it possibly live up to the weight of expectation put upon it? Can it satisfy our longing for a fulfilling conclusion to this epic of detection and character observation? Endeavour Morse has always been, perhaps after Sherlock Holmes, the most fully-rounded of fictional detectives; and Endeavour had the difficult task of laying the background for that character, both in terms of psychological development and in complexities of plot. We also got an insight into the career development of the character, once described as a great detective but a poor policeman, and how it was formed by his relationships with his colleagues Fred Thursday, Jim Strange and Reginald Bright. If the series went off the rails at one point, descending into farcical operatic drama and comical Carry On references, it did manage to get its feet back on the ground for these final three episodes. But the burden was always there, the pressure to explain the big question — what happened between Morse and Fred Thursday, such that the Thursday family was never mentioned in the Inspector Morse novels or TV series? Handily, the killer turns up, is captured and confesses to his crimes in a racist, homophobic, and anti-European rant. All this is against the background of the planning of the wedding of Joan Thursday and Jim Strange. Meanwhile, Morse is investigating the murder of a biker, presumably in a drugs turf war. Magically, all this gets tied together. Fred and wife Win, then, do have to go into hiding, in case the bikers get on his trail. So far so good, that could explain why they were never subsequently mentioned.

Loading Comments Although if he had endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap her surname, the investigation would have been a lot shorter as he'd've spotted a link when he subsequently encountered to John Bingley her estranged husband when following the lead on where the phone calls were answered. Morse is convinced that the remains of Peter Williams, a victim who was never accounted for, are buried there, while Thursday and Bright are anxious for the case to be closed.

June Morse investigates a death notice in the Oxford Mail which appeared shortly before the person mentioned actually died in what initially looks to have been an accident, and finds a link with an earlier death which was not treated as suspicious. This leads him to an undertaker's, forcing him to confront his own mortality. Fred Thursday, looking set to move to Carshall Newtown, finds himself having to deal with more trouble from his past, at a time when he has trouble enough in the present, leading him to resort to desperate measures to protect his family. Elsewhere, Strange is set to marry Joan and transfer to Kidlington, while Bright is looking forward to retirement.

For the most part, the Endeavour finale kept its feet on the ground and provided answers to long-held fan questions. One scene however, set a new mystery. Endeavour nods and places the gun in the boot of his Jag. Ad — content continues below. That smile could be a clue to one interpretation of the Endeavour finale gunshot mystery. Endeavour shoots the weapon while sitting on a bench outside the church in which Joan and Jim were married. In that same churchyard, Morse discovered the headstones connecting corrupt Inspector Lott to the false identity he adopted to buy Blenheim Vale. Next to the Lott family plot was the grave of infant Lionel Godfrey Chambers, whose birth certificate Lott had obtained to create the persona behind his hooky front company based in Bermuda. One interpretation is that the scene functions as a symbolic suicide for the character of Endeavour, allowing for his figurative rebirth as simply Morse, the iteration of the character as played by John Thaw in Inspector Morse.

Endeavour season 9 episode 3 recap

A fancy funeral, with extensive flower arrangements. No clue who the dead person was, but does this feel like a callout post for everyone involved in covering up the Blenheim Vale situation or what? Jakes: Some of me never left this place. Morse: We are SO close. I will find him. I promise. Back at the station, Fred and Bright talk about this whole tragic mess.

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Given the progression of the series with its twists and turns over the decade, we are prepared to accept not every issue will be resolved — from the beginning, Endeavour has reminded us life is uncertain, compared to the truths of great music, literature, or architecture. Surely this is the same Robert Lewis who will become the sergeant sidekick — played by Kevin Whately — on Inspector Morse and get his own spinoff series, Inspector Lewis , in Morse recognizes the hand of someone who wants to impress others with his cleverness, targeting academics and using Latin phrases, and suspects the murderer will continue. That leads to one of the explanations the final season promised to deliver: why Thursday is never mentioned by his former partner in the original series. The wedding festivities continue with the stag night, where everyone is drunk in a pub. He was looking for his missing mother and was also using the private detective to locate her but she had been killed and buried at Blenheim Vale. Like Loading For certainly the ending of Season 9 Episode 3 leaves us not knowing precisely what the reason is for the gunshot. The speech recited by Bright towards the end "Our revels now are ended Ours is not to reason why; ours is but to do and die. Red Herring : A few.

With funereal imagery and talk of death, the Endeavour finale presaged tragedy, but then took its leave with merciful care. Its characters were dispatched like a fond parent putting to bed a favourite child. All survived, and went away with assurances to us about their futures.

After imagining what might happen if he were to do this, he addresses her as "Mrs Strange". McMurdo ran, with the phrase " Mortui vivis praecipiant " Let the dead teach the living. But what about Jim and Joan, who get married without a hitch? We also got an insight into the career development of the character, once described as a great detective but a poor policeman, and how it was formed by his relationships with his colleagues Fred Thursday, Jim Strange and Reginald Bright. Big time. Share This Post Facebook Email. First-Name Basis : A couple of examples here. Right down to the child's gravestone in the churchyard. Fred Thursday, looking set to move to Carshall Newtown, finds himself having to deal with more trouble from his past, at a time when he has trouble enough in the present, leading him to resort to desperate measures to protect his family. Fortunately for Morse, Strange and a couple of uniformed constables aren't far behind.